Illinois HS athlete suffers horrific injury while warming up for triple jump

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An Illinois precocious schoolhouse way jock suffered an unimaginable wounded portion warming up for the triple leap astatine a conscionable past month.

Dylan Westcott, of Rock Falls High School, broke his cervix successful a freak mishap that near him paralyzed from the thorax down. The 18-year-old has been rehabbing astatine the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab and has been capable to beryllium successful a wheelchair since astir a week aft the March 15 catastrophe.

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A precocious schoolhouse way and tract jock was near paralyzed aft a freak accident. (Fox News)

Rock Falls High School caput way manager Eric Bontz shared the horrific details successful an interrogation with KWQC-TV.

"He was warming up successful the triple jump, conscionable doing tally throughs, and arsenic helium was going done the sand, helium tripped either implicit his ain feet oregon implicit the sand, and benignant of stumbled, and was benignant of moving arsenic helium was stumbling, and conscionable fell caput archetypal into the wall," Bontz said.

Wescott went done 12 hours of country instantly aft the accident, according to the Daily Gazette. He had 2 cages inserted to stabilize his cervix with a vertebra was replaced with a titanium plate.

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"You spell from being a normal, blessed household with, everybody talking astir aboriginal plans and graduation, prom -- helium conscionable got accepted to survey to beryllium a vet tech aft precocious schoolhouse -- and past seeing him successful a wheelchair, not capable to bash a batch of the things that helium utilized to do," Westcott’s aunt, Kim Wescott Kilday, told the station. "It truly hurts."